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F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
In the 1960s, while ITS was developed at MIT, AT&T Bell Labs fostered a similar hacker spirit, creating Unix and the C language. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, transitioning from the Multics project, aimed for simplicity and efficiency, developing Unix on PDP-7 and later porting it to PDP-11. The creation of the C language, evolving from B, allowed Unix to be rewritten in a high-level language, setting a foundational standard for modern computing and operating system development...
The Multics project began in 1964, but due to the large code size and complexity, the schedule fell far behind Bell Labs' expectations. Based on his experience developing Multics, Ken Thompson creates a new operating system by himself at Bell Labs. Once the development was well underway, a team was organized and they began implementing the operating system features we use today, such as the filesystem, process model, device files, and command line interpreter, for the first time on PDP-7.
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